Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-30

Of the figures of MATTHEW s. QUAY.
Washington society this season. Whether
the senator will be much of n social figure
himself remains to be seen. lie may take
after Don Cameron, and prefer his home
to society. | saw Judge Kelley talking
to Judge Martin, the new representative
from Texas, in the Capitol today. The
two are of about the same height, and
Martin is a character. He is, imagine,
q much underestimate character, too,
and he is the man whom the papers have
unjustly charged with blowing out the
gas at Wizards hotel, and with doing
other things hardly consistent with
the customs of our advanced civil
cation. He is n tall, slender, wiry
man of over six feet in height, and his
hat is black sombrero, with rim six
inches wide He stands straight, carries
himself well, and his fierce eyes look out
from under heavy, bushy brows. He has
curly, glossy dark hair, and his forehead
is rather high. He walks with cane,
and though he dresses well, apparently
cares but little about appearances. Dur
ing the opening day of congress his vest
was held together only by its lowest but
ton, and, contrary to the custom of some
of the congressional dudes, he did not
whole days session. He wears Il black
nccktie, which he ties himself and, on the
whole, he is to my mind rather fine
looking man. He is a man of ability,
and his Texas friends tell me that he will
make Il stir in congress before the session
is over.
He was born in Alabama, and was adj
mitted to the bar there. He went to
Texas when he was % years old, and was
a member of the Texas senate at 30 In
| 1861 he raised n company for the Confed-
crate army, and fought under Lee until
the war closed, He then returned to
Texas, practiced law, and served a term
as district attorney. The charge as
to the gas is ridiculous, for he has long
been public man, and imagine that he
knows considerably more than the cor
respondents suppose. He has made for
tune in Texas, and owns large ranch
there. He is sufficiently well off to have
retired from the practice of the law, and he
comes to congress as Democrat.
Judge Kelley, by the way, has not been
| at all we'll of late, but he tells me he soon
hopes to get the malaria out of his sys-
TEN, and then Orchard will be himself
again" His mind, however, is rs active
as it was when he came to congress at the
| beginning Vi inc Wal, anu Hc has INV
been in congress longer than any man at
| Washington. He is tall, straight and
slender, and his voice is as strong as that
| of the youngest man in the house. lie
carries on a great amount of literary work
in addition to his congressional duties,
and he has now book on the south in
the hands of his publishers. 1t is, OF
course, full of protective tariff ideas, for
Kelley is nothing if not protects onist.
He gets through his work by sticking tC
it, and he uses n stenographer largely
He can dictate as Auently as he can write
and his dictated matter is as concise as
though it had been revised and re-reviseC
with the pen in hand
John S. Barbour, the man who will take
Riddleberger's place in the United State:
senate, will be one Of the finest looking
men in that body. He is over six fee
high, with shoulders considerably ovel
two feet broad and with a bust measur,
of more than forty inches He weighs
$50 pounds, and his clothes are tailor mad,
and that to order His head is large ano
packed with brains. His forehead is hroal
and his face looks like that of the million
aire Corcoran. He has shown himself t.
be n man of absity in the lower house
and he will cut leading figure on tn
Democratic side of the upper one. III
comes of one of the oldest of the F. F. VS..
and he has had ancestors in the senate, IL
the cabinet and on the bench.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.